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Carefully Crafted Koi

Carefully Crafted Koi

One of Kenny Kicklighter’s most majestic pieces of art flirts with the beauty of nature. This breathtaking wall hanging takes 3 days to install panel by panel. Each rock panel is handcrafted to replicate black lava stone. If you don’t look close enough, one would confuse a normal stone with one of Kenny’s crafted rock. Likewise, the koi are created using two types of of firing to bring out the different colors and finished. If you look at the koi at the right angle, they almost seem to be swimming upstream. Legend has it that if a Koi swims upstream fast enough, it’ll turn into a dragon. Like the 3 day installation, great feats are accomplished little by little, one stone at a time. It is this determination that turns a coy koi into a decorate dragon.

Carefully Crafted Koi

One of Kenny Kicklighter’s most majestic pieces of art flirts with the beauty of nature. This breathtaking wall hanging takes 3 days to install panel by panel. Each rock panel is handcrafted to replicate black lava stone. If you don’t look close enough, one would confuse a normal stone with one of Kenny’s crafted rock. Likewise, the koi are created using two types of of firing to bring out the different colors and finished. If you look at the koi at the right angle, they almost seem to be swimming upstream. Legend has it that if a Koi swims upstream fast enough, it’ll turn into a dragon. Like the 3 day installation, great feats are accomplished little by little, one stone at a time. It is this determination that turns a coy koi into a decorate dragon.